Ep. 024 – The Control Room Reimagined – with Ryan Glover - Waterbridge

Ryan Glover is currently the director of Remote Operations at WaterBridge based in Houston Texas. he brings experience from previous roles held at Apache Corp, Marathon Oil and Oxy.

00:30 Introductions

01:00 Ryan’s Career Journey

05:50 The Genesis of the Waterbridge control room

08:20 Field culture and resistance to remote operations

10:00 Setting the tone with the vision of connected remote operations

11:30 Production control rooms – where do they fit in the organization?

13:30 Building trust with field teams and operations

14:45 Who is Waterbridge?

17:50 Incredible operations and control room growth at Waterbridge

19:30 The challenges of growth in remote operations

20:15 Scaling with technology

21:45 Control room challenges – high grading operators with technology

24:00 Growing and scaling simultaneously

25:00 Investing in your operators

27:45 Equipping controllers with the right technology tools

28:45 Preparing to leverage AI in the control room

30:30 Ignition as the platform of choice

34:30 New technologies to look for and utilize

35:30 Moving toward predictive

36:30 Top 3 pieces of advice for control room managers

Colton Lippencott is a member of the OpSite Energy Logistics Team. He has been managing water in oil field applications since 2017.

00:25 Introductions

00:40 Announcements and upcoming events – EnergyTech Podcast

03:15 Colton’s career journey

05:00 Biggest lessons learned in water management

06:30 The competitive controller mindset

08:30 Multigenerational control rooms

11:30 The biggest hurdles of water management in Appalachia

13:00 Preparing for winter weather

16:15 Novel approaches to water management

17:30 H2Ops – 600 Trucks in 24 hours safely dispatched

20:00 The issue with water cost reconciliation in the oilfield

21:00 $500K/Month Savings

23:15 Per barrel vs per hour hauling

25:40 Safety challenges in Appalachia

27:30 Monitoring and improving driver performance

30:00 AI prompting controller actions

32:00 Insight Driven Remote Optimization.

Ep. 021 - From Data Swamp to Data Lake: Digital Transformation with MQTT, Ignition and Snowflake.

Arlen Nipper brings over 38 years of experience in the SCADA industry to today’s talk. Currently Arlen sits as President and CTO of Cirrus Link a company he co-founded in 2012. He was one of the early architects of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things and co-invented MQTT, a publish-subscribe network protocol that has become the dominant messaging standard in IoT. He has worked for Amoco and Koch Oil, and served as President and CTO of Arcom Control Systems and Eurotech Inc. His experience covers a broad range of technology from the design and manufacturing of embedded systems to SCADA system infrastructure implementations. Arlen holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BSEE) from Oklahoma State University.

https://cirrus-link.com/

https://www.ignitionoilandgascollective.org/

https://inductiveautomation.com/

00:30 Introductions

02:30 Who is Cirrus Link

08:10 Ignition oil and gas collective

11:40 Pain points in oil and gas OT Data

15:15 Single source of truth architecture

17:15 The benefits of leveraging MQTT

21:30 Ignition as the tool for enterprise connectivity

25:25 Sparkplug standard for modeling OT Data

29:30 Raw automation data to Ignition platform

32:00 Live Demo Topology with Snowflake

34:20 The Digital Twin Problem

35:30 Snowflake Digital Twin

36:10 Live Demo with Ignition and Snowflake

45:45 Flowboss meter connection

53:00 Review of products used

56:15 Sub-second data for drilling, completions, etc

Ep. 22 – PHMSA CRM - A Midstream Alarm Rationalization Journey – Adam Bodell

00:30 Introductions

01:45 From Plant Operator to SCADA Developer

3:30 Midstream Alarm Rationalization Effort

4:45 PHMSA CRM Light

06:00 What is needed to start an alarm rationalization?

7:15 Monitor and Assess

8:30 Quick Wins – First Pass

8:45 Post MOC Rationalization

12:15 Alarm Review Cadence

13:00 Java and SQL script reporting

13:45 Alarm Review methodology

DJ Melancon is the Senior National Sales Leader at Tosibox. DJ has been helping companies build secure connections across their OT infrastructure for the last seven years. His focus is on oil, gas and wastewater applications.

https://www.tosibox.com

00:30 Introductions

01:00 Studio Upgrades

02:12 ENTELEC 2025 Conference

05:00 Industry Trade show trends

06:30 Cybersecurity Stats 2024 – Ransomware attacks

08:00 OT Cybersecurity with Tosibox

16:15 What problem is Tosibox solving?

27:40 Tosibox, PLC Architecture and Communications

38:15 Connecting with the Tosibox Key - DEMO

45:45 Connecting with Tosibox

53:20 Autosol – Edge ACM, OPC UA, MQTT Converter

54:20 Tosibox Key dashboard – connecting is easy as 1-2-3!

57:45 RDP to Remote VPN connection with real time SCADA data

59:30 The Cost of Tosibox and the Business Case

Arlen Nipper brings over 38 years of experience in the SCADA industry to today’s talk. Currently Arlen sits as President and CTO of Cirrus Link a company he co-founded in 2012. He was one of the early architects of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things and co-invented MQTT, a publish-subscribe network protocol that has become the dominant messaging standard in IoT. He has worked for Amoco and Koch Oil, and served as President and CTO of Arcom Control Systems and Eurotech Inc. His experience covers a broad range of technology from the design and manufacturing of embedded systems to SCADA system infrastructure implementations. Arlen holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BSEE) from Oklahoma State University.

https://cirrus-link.com/

00:15 Introduction and Welcome

1:30 Topic Introduction

2:45 Arlen’s Career Journey - 46 years!

8:00 Arlen’s why

12:00 SCADA Protocol converters for legacy equipment to new SCADA

14:40 History of SCADA communications, ATT deal, deregulation,

16:15 VSAT on the scene

17:45 ATT VSAT utilizing TCP/IP (1998)

19:50 Decoupling IT Data and publishing to a broker with subscribers

20:20 SCADA Pub/Sub over VSAT for report by exception – the development story

26:30 Time to develop in preparation for TCP/IP

28:50 MQTT The backbone of pipelines, ATMs, social media messaging and more.

30:00 Why is MQTT so prolific in 2025?

31:30 MQTT Leveraging the best security technologies and TLS Certificates

From Legacy to Predictive: A Conversation with CNX COO Navneet Behl (Part II)

00:10 Digital Transformation – Looking in the Mirror

2:30 Keys to Success, What does winning look like?

5:15 Impacting operations

7:30 Ground up approaches

10:00 Creating lasting change

12:05 Lasting change in Remote Operations – Manage by Exception

17:00 Leveraging Cloud Data

From Legacy to Predictive: A Conversation with CNX COO Navneet Behl (Part I)

00:30 Intro

1:10 Welcome Navneet

1:30 Technology in Energy – A look back and a look forward

3:15 Data as a commodity

4:30 Data and the human race

9:50 Legacy Operations to Predictive Operations – The Challenge

14:30 Cultural Challenges

18:00 Scaling Remote Operations and the Challenges

Tune in For Part II

Beyond the PHMSA Checklist – Why Alarm Redirection is a Symptom, not a Solution

Join us today as we speak about taking your control room operations past compliance and into optimization. New Technologies are changing the way we approach control room technologies and PHMSA like always is late to the show.

01:00 Intro

01:40 Undaunted Courage

4:44 Traditional Alarm Management

7:45 PHMSA CRM: What It Actually Requires

8:20 Alarm Redirection

12:00 What the Competitors Offer

15:00 How OpSite Goes Beyond

25:21 Compliance Vs Optimization

30:15 Learn More at OpSIte Energy

00:07 Intro

01:08 Opsite Control Room

02:34 The Traditional Approach to PHMSA Control Room Operations

3:45 The Past vs the Present – Where does new technology fit?

5:15 PHMSA – outdate approach

05:45 Costs

06:30 Staffing Costs

07:00 Regulatory SME Costs

07:55 Regulatory Pressure

8:45 Cybersecurity Threats

9:50 Staffing Challenges

13:00 Flexibility for Dynamic Private Midstream

14:30 The Smarter Approach in 2025

16:15 The OpSite Way

17:45 OpSite Vs the “Other Guys”